Daily Republican., 1887-10-12
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y1Ghtful Wreck on the Chicago asd
Atiantie-fhirs Persons nasgisd and !
Harmed 70 Death.
CHICAGO. Oct. 1.-The worst horrors
ef Chassworth were dpplicatsd ~
Konts, Ind.s sixty miles from this city. |
this morning, ON the Chicsgo and Az. |
lautic RsilsoAd.
According 70 the bsst estimate ob.
tainable, for only an estimate was pos
siblo, fully thirty hnmau lives mad
been sscridoed outright. and half that
numb Der Of persons had suffered tuiur.
lee more or less serious.
A heavy fresh meat train tslescoped
the evening accommodation train, tho
New York express, which leaves Chioa.
10 att 4b p. m. The train, with one
baggage oar, two ooaches and one
sleeper, had stopped ~ the wsser tank.
about one mile vest Of Kouts, and the
freight train following crashed into the
sleeper, telescoping sDd burning up the
entire passenger train.
| Some part OF the machinery OF the
passenger engine had been thrown out
Of order duting the run from Chicago.
4 trifiing stop at the water tank would
make II eli hight, IL WAS thought and
the stop Was accordingly made. Sud
denly, out Of the darkness behind came
the faeh Of . headlight, the rush and
lmiRhty crash. Just - as Ohats worth,
I the sleeping coach now got In its deadly
work. The mAssive framework OF tho
sleeper vas transformed into huge
lcatapult. Pushed marciiessly forward
by the freight IL cruthsd into the cars
for ward, smashing their com paFstively
light timb and making ths work OF
deqtruc ION complete. Tho wreck quick
ly Took fiFe and the sight OF the snriek-
inQ victims and dancing flames was
one never to be forgotten.
PASSENGERS BURNED TO DEATH,
Several passengers who were on the
Ill faied train arrived here this after
uoon. One Of them, . gentleman from
Taunton, Mass, who Was on his way
I homo, was sitting In the frst oar asleep
He tells this story:
"The Hrss I knew heard . fiightfu
crash, and The car seemed shattered
snd the pieces were flying past me
The next knew I found myself almos
buried in the ruiss and they seemed b
keep p!liug up. tried 10 e1trioAt
lmy self aud found Was near window
Some maA. I don't know who, helpet
me ont, and then turned In and helpe'
TO get Others ont. A little while after
RoS ont, though, the whole thing tool
nre, and We we're forced to give mp wor
and let II burn, with the horrible erie
OF those held inside In our ears. At on
place there were two or three wone or
apparently all together, and We tried
IS get them out. They were shriekinR q
- the time 10 q manner to freezs one
y blood, for the fire was coming nearer
them ell the time. We worked as Ion
q as we could but could not get them on
and the fire came all around them an
n finally silepoed their scrtams To het
their desperate cries, rs the hre can
i. nearer aud nearer and finally reache
! them, was simply appalling The wrec
/ burned to the trucks, no facilities beir
!. at hand to extineuish the Are. A ca
load OF the injured was taken eastwal
n from the wreck this forenoon. The
- we're matmed, bruised and burned ,son
)d quite badly"
William Gaghian, the conductor
the Chicago, 5t. Leus ard Pittsbu
rs constr uction train now working betwe'
Kouts and Hebron, o small station Il
miles v eat OF Kouts, saw something
's- the results OF the accident. His CO
all st, d ,tion train runs into Kouts eve
evening with its load Of workmen, aI
the conductor sleeps In the one III,
hotel Of which the town boasts. He "
awakened at 4 O. clock this morning
\ take out a Wabash train that had be
delay cd by the wreck. Upon goi
down stairs In the hotel he found
confusion. In the little parlor b
D. some fifteen years OF age was stretch
upon the a )or, literally mapgled .
Is torn to pieces, with just enough HE Il
. In his body TO speak in faint whisp'
10 those who asked him about the no,
dent In the rear room of the par
another boy was lying, with serio
bruises about the head. In one OF
upper rooms he learned the engineer
the wrecked msat train was Iyi
~ almost at the point OF death.
hideous we're these sights and 90 pitee
were the cries Of anguish which vi
to be heard on all sides that the stur
conductor could eat nothing and h
ried to his duties, glad to escape sucf
scene.
JOE M'coOL's AWFUL EXPERIENCE
In the little sitting room OF the
tase which serves as O hotel In 1
. town two OF the wounded survivors
| the accident still rem siued late I
\ Afternoon. Herman M ,ller, Boheml
y boy, on his way from Dundse, H.,
tie old county, In stretched on the
lounge In the low dark room. Hio ht
is fearfu!ly battered and his right les
frscturs1 The Other wounded mai
VI Joe MoCOOl, bartender, OF bott
- who, had be not been passenger on
II. Ill f.tsd train, would have been "
Win coined In Chicago by bis relatives, VIII
: in be has not saen for years. His tnlur
!, Ieoy are for the most part Internal ana
Z az ~ not 70 severe but that his recovery
and possible. He was able TO tel OF
. Of awfal occurrep ce as followe:
eing Just as l had stretched myseli
no! OF 10 20 to sleep and almost before ! clio
iIies my eyes there was an awful era
rket VII lob, God help me, l never want
y Of hear again. I could fee! myself thro
'na' violently toward the top OF the car
~. 'su' then became ilsensiole. on tne Y
up realized that all Was confusion
the car; that canes, yslises, RODS OF u
and lamps were In the air about me,
must have regained my oonsciousn
in q very short time, for when aw'
all was darkness in the car and borr'
shrieks and piercing walls OF agony
most deafened my sars. ln the emo
the car, furthesk from me the stove ,,
n overturned and the fiames were J
= starting to spread with magic rapia'
There was some sort of rev gas 10
nm lin the car, with reservoirs reacn
,uu from one 10 the other. the nsi
leaped up the sides, and In less u
than I can tell 1t the gas was puin
the whole length OF the car ose'